What people skills do you use most during work or other everyday activities? What are the competencies you use less but should? The “Leadership Skills Profile” is the award-winning, ultimate FLIGBY assessment designed along Prof. Csikszentmihalyi’s guidelines and insights. The following summary shows how these 29 skills are distributed on average in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia,…
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‘Being Boring (1990)’ – What the PetShopBoys did not know, but we do know!
One of my favorite teenage pop bands, the Pet Shop Boys, sang: ‘Cause we were never being boringWe had too much time to find for ourselvesAnd we were never being boringWe were never being bored … Well, it remains a debate if ‘being boring’ is OK or not, but ‘being bored’ is certainly recommendable! Most…
Flow is Indeed Sustainability – the Importance of Nonviolent Communication Skills
I enrolled in the Ph.D. program of the Corvinus University of Budapest in the autumn of 2021. This was my first semester as a teacher and a young researcher. In September I still felt so much like a freshly graduated master’s student, and I was both excited (and quite stressed) about my first teaching experience.…
Flow Theory, Faculty Development & Pedagogy
Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Associate Professor of Leadership, and Academic Ambassador of FLIGBY, delivered an international faculty development training and workshop series for university colleaguesFaculty members represented numerous areas of science: pedagogy, applied psychology, business, and English philology. The topics of the video interviews (below) are: What is the essence of Flow theory? Which abilities and…
The FLIGBY Crossword Game – “Fun & Flow”
Play ONLINE here Printable version here: Full Quiz / Picture here PNG Across 4. the best winemaker 6. you lose in Flow 7. optimal experience and global bestseller title 9. almost in Flow 13. another type of happiness 15. The Guru himself 18. 25+ years at the winery 21. must be immediate 22. No…., no Flow 25. you probably forgot to read this regularly 26. is…
#RunningFlow RE-Loaded
#RunningFlow news: Will Leonidas of Rhodes, a Triastes (#overachiever) of the Olympiads in 164BC, 160BC, 156BC and 152BC, who won in each of these three different foot races, remain a #champion next year in #Tokyoy2020 #Tokyo2021? “The three events at which he triumphed were the Stadion, a sprint of roughly 200m; the Diaulos, which was twice the…
The ‘Evolving Self’ – Another global bestseller by Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My 25+ years of practice leadership development and management theory make me share with you what is the most important question in life. Many of you might have read it already in one of the best books of the past 3 decades, The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1993): Given the level of habituality that…
29 FLIGBY Skills (magyarul)
29 vezetői készség a FLIGBY alkalmazásában Buzády Zoltán és Wimmer Ágnes, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Értő figyelem (Active listening) – Az értő figyelem (active listening) a másik fél megértésének eszköze, tudatos koncentrálás a másik fél közléseire, aktív hallgatás és odafigyelés a beszélő gondolataira és érzelmeire, az üzenetre és annak mélyebb kontextusára. Az értő figyelem segíti az egyértelmű kommunikációt…
Let me tell you… about the CIRCLE OF FLOW
Let me tell you an important essence: Leadership development is the foundation for overcoming any of your current problems and for realizing future projects! We know about the mechanics of the concept of being in Flow works, in fact, it is not just a theory but a real, observable, and reproducible phenomenon! Flow, the optimal…
Facing ‘the new normal’ requires re-defining our existence
Head of the Department of Management and lecturer at Estonian Business School, Marge Täks has faced many changes in her life: among others switching from the corporate world to a career in academia. Nevertheless, after returning from holidays in India in March 2020 (which was also the first time she did not take a laptop…









